Hunky Dory

For anybody who has considered themselves a musician, songwriter or artist of any kind usually has a source of inspiration. Be it a favorite band or solo artist, to which it gives them their own ideas, motivation and personal sense of style. One musician who has particularly influenced me is the artist David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust. His career spanned several decades in which he like his fellow musician “Bob Dylan” was not constrained by the music that he made and has reinvented himself, his musical style and appearance several times. The diversity of his career is a combination of various genres of music (i.e. Folk, Rock, American Soul, Electronic, Blues and Glam). David Bowie has gained many fans and respect from his peers with an impressive discography. The most iconic and influential part of David Bowies career was from the 1972 seminal concept album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars”. This is the point when Bowie radically changed the world with his music and talent, turning what was supposed to be just another good “Pop Album” into a personification of self-parody and style with a British idea of fringe New York Music including the likes of “The Velvet Underground”. This single moment in time propelled his overall status by single handedly bringing forward the age of “Glam Rock” with his now iconic outrageous fashion, music and flamboyant behavior. Which in turn gave both British and American bands/artists the blueprints such as The Sweet,…

Noted for his chameleon like ability to shift through personas, ideas and subject matter, Bowie’s work can be sectioned into different thematic movements, from Ziggy Stardust to the Thine White Duke. Yet connections can be drawn and linked throughout his whole musical career. Themes presented in his early work are referenced and connected into Bowie most contemporary albums. A major theme within Bowie’s work as a whole is loneliness and alienation. From the personas Bowie has created and the…

of fish sold in Australia by food outlets are imported from overseas, and due to ambiguous food labelling laws many are not disclosing what they’re ‘really’ selling. For Example, Melbourne fish and chips restaurant chain, Hunky Dory is the latest venue found misleading its customers by selling cheap Vietnamese catfish (known as basa) and calling it their ‘fish of the day’ dory. 3.2) Incorrect Fish Labelling is Widespread Industry insiders have confirmed this isn’t the first case and it’s just…

Disney Channel UK broadcasts American series, Disney Channel Croatia is not a truly Croatian version of the American channel. Disney Channel Croatia does not consist of shows with Croatian actors, speaking the Croatian language, carrying out scripts relevant to the lives of Croats. It is just a piece of American media dubbed with the Croatian language. The programming schedule follows that of Disney Channel UK. Girl Meets World, I Didn’t Do It, and Jessie are popular shows on Disney Channel…

If the world tells you that racism is acceptable and that it is okay to discriminate against genders or races and you think different- you believe it is not permitted to discriminate- that is your conscience. Even though the majority may say it is all hunky-dory, you can be that person that disagrees. That is what Lee means when she says “the one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience” (Lee), that your conscience doesn’t always agree with what other people…

David Bowie was an androgynous musician who had several songs that had deep symbolism. For example his song “Life on Mars” which was released in 1971 along with the Hunky Dory Album, but it took off when he embraced his Ziggy Stardust persona. The song is dedicated to an era of rebellion against materialism and escapism through entertainment such as movies and shows. Most of all, the song is dedicated to a time in which media was focused on all of the violence and acts of resistance. The…

For the past 17 years my “father” has terrorized me without lifting a finger. He has yelled, threatened, and thrown various items at me and my mom. Every day when I go to school my peers do not see any physical bruises or scars, so they believe everything is hunky-dory, but what they do not see is the mental fatigue that I endure at home and the stress it takes to pretend like nothing is wrong. It is hard enough to struggle with the pain of living with my “father,” but it is even tougher to…

David Bowie watched “2001: A Space Odyssey” while stoned, and was inspired to write a song titled “ Space Oddity,” a song about an astronaut named Major Tom who is lost in space. The song was released days before the first moon landing and became an instant hit. Even though he got recognition for that song, David Bowie set out to have his named recognized. Bowie took inspirations from Iggy Pop and Lou Reed and would incorporate it onto his own image. In an interview he stated that he felt…

I will be a mentor in the future, and that comes with being a good leader. Trustworthiness is the noblest and powerful of all the attributes of leadership. Leaders become trustworthy by building a track record of honesty, fairness, and integrity (Hamm, 7). When I lead my team, they will need to know the vision and plans for the company. We have to collaborate and support one another in our success for the business. They need to know how to lead our mentees as well through the Word of God; they…

Zakariya Daham, NA14 Song Analysis 2016-02-12 (Is there) Life on Mars? ’’Life on Mars’’ is a song with the text and music written by the British musician David Bowie. It was first released as a single in the 22th of June, 1971, and was later featured in his album Hunky Dory. David Bowie is notoriously famous for his critique of society, and this song of his is a metaphorical masterpiece that takes the crown. This song is all about how our own entertainment, movies, music and TV have become too…